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We were in Death Valley photographing for several days right before Christmas. Lake Manly, the occasional lake near Badwater, was calling to us, along with a few other more remote locations. The weather was... "interesting." We did get some nice light, but we also worked through some very gray conditions. On the day we left, we got out of the park by the skin of our teeth — we left extremely early in the morning on Christmas Eve day as a storm rolled in. Towne Pass closed shortly after we crossed it (there were already boulders on the road) and much of our route out of the desert featured flooding washes and closed roadways.

We'll be back there, possibly more than once, in February and March.

Here's a photo dump from the trip, heaving on Lake Manly photographs. Enjoy!

(I have shared this in the Canon forum, too since I’m still using my, uh, “classic” Canon 5DsR for landscape photography.)

#1: Panamint Sunrise, Lake Manly

#2: Death Valley, Mountains, Morning Haze

#3: Lake Manly Sky

#4: At the Edge of Lake Manly, Sunrise

#5 Peaks and Clearing Storm

#6: Wading Lake Manly

#7: Manly Lake, Mountains and Clouds

#8: Canyon Hikers

#9: Winter Desert Sky

#10: View From A High Place

#11: Badlands and Wash

#12: Dawn Clouds, Death Valley

#13: Manly Lake, First Light



Jan 17, 2026 at 04:20 PM
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Death Valley in Winter — Lake Manly and More


We were in Death Valley photographing for several days right before Christmas. Lake Manly, the occasional lake near Badwater, was calling to us, along with a few other more remote locations. The weather was... "interesting." We did get some nice light, but we also worked through some very gray conditions. On the day we left, we got out of the park by the skin of our teeth — we left extremely early in the morning on Christmas Eve day as a storm rolled in. Towne Pass closed shortly after we crossed it (there were already boulders on the road) and much of our route out of the desert featured flooding washes and closed roadways.

We'll be back there, possibly more than once, in February and March.

Here's a photo dump from the trip, heaving on Lake Manly photographs. Enjoy!

(Since I’m ]still using my, uh, “classic” Canon 5DsR for my landscape photography I have shared this in the Canon forum, too.)

#1: Panamint Sunrise, Lake Manly

#2: Death Valley, Mountains, Morning Haze

#3: Lake Manly Sky

#4: At the Edge of Lake Manly, Sunrise

#5 Peaks and Clearing Storm

#6: Wading Lake Manly

#7: Manly Lake, Mountains and Clouds

#8: Canyon Hikers

#9: Winter Desert Sky

#10: View From A High Place

#11: Badlands and Wash

#12: Dawn Clouds, Death Valley

#13: Manly Lake, First Light



Jan 17, 2026 at 04:19 PM
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Death Valley in Winter — Lake Manly and More


We were in Death Valley photographing for several days right before Christmas. Lake Manly, the occasional lake near Badwater, was calling to us, along with a few other more remote locations. The weather was... "interesting." We did get some nice light, but we also worked through some very gray conditions. On the day we left, we got out of the park by the skin of our teeth — we left extremely early in the morning on Christmas Eve day as a storm rolled in. Towne Pass closed shortly after we crossed it (there were already boulders on the road) and much of our route out of the desert featured flooding washes and closed roadways.

We'll be back there, possibly more than once, in February and March.

Here's a photo dump from the trip, heaving on Lake Manly photographs. Enjoy!

(Since I’m ]still shooting these on my, uh, “classic” Canon 5DsR I have shared this in the Canon forum, too.)

#1: Panamint Sunrise, Lake Manly

#2: Death Valley, Mountains, Morning Haze

#3: Lake Manly Sky

#4: At the Edge of Lake Manly, Sunrise

#5 Peaks and Clearing Storm

#6: Wading Lake Manly

#7: Manly Lake, Mountains and Clouds

#8: Canyon Hikers

#9: Winter Desert Sky

#10: View From A High Place

#11: Badlands and Wash

#12: Dawn Clouds, Death Valley

#13: Manly Lake, First Light



Jan 17, 2026 at 04:18 PM
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Death Valley in Winter — Lake Manly and More


We were in Death Valley photographing for several days right before Christmas. Lake Manly, the occasional lake near Badwater, was calling to us, along with a few other more remote locations. The weather was... "interesting." We did get some nice light, but we also worked through some very gray conditions. On the day we left, we got out of the park by the skin of our teeth — we left extremely early in the morning on Christmas Eve day as a storm rolled in. Towne Pass closed shortly after we crossed it (there were already boulders on the road) and much of our route out of the desert featured flooding washes and closed roadways.

We'll be back there, possibly more than once, in February and March.

Here's a photo dump from the trip, heaving on Lake Manly photographs. Enjoy!

#1: Panamint Sunrise, Lake Manly

#2: Death Valley, Mountains, Morning Haze

#3: Lake Manly Sky

#4: At the Edge of Lake Manly, Sunrise

#5 Peaks and Clearing Storm

#6: Wading Lake Manly

#7: Manly Lake, Mountains and Clouds

#8: Canyon Hikers

#9: Winter Desert Sky

#10: View From A High Place

#11: Badlands and Wash

#12: Dawn Clouds, Death Valley

#13: Manly Lake, First Light



Jan 17, 2026 at 03:01 PM





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